Guwahati, March 10: The All Assam Student Union (AASU) and 30 ethnic groups staged a 12-hour hunger strike across the state against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
The hunger strike took place from 6 am to 6 pm on the banks of Dighali Pokhuri in Guwahati city on Sunday, along with the entire state.
The Union demanded the scrapping of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019 and criticized the BJP government.
Speaking to the media, the President of the All Assam Student Union, Utpal Sarma, said, “The government has been trying to impose the burden of illegal foreigners by adopting certain rules. Also, the government has been warned that the people of the North East will not accept what they did not accept.”
On the day of Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrival in Assam on March 8, lanterns were lit at the portraits of the five martyrs of the anti-CAA movement, and the martyrs were commemorated. Copies of the CAA rules will be burnt across the state on the day they come into force. There will also be a rally in the district headquarters the day after the enforcement of the CAA rules. There will be a series of satyagrahas. “I am determined to continue my street fight and legal fight against the CAA in parallel,” he said.
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